people · May 17, 2026
CrewAI Iris Agent Achieves 1 in 4 Pull Requests from AI at Company
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João Moura, CEO at CrewAI, detailed the performance of Iris, the company's internal AI employee that has been running in production for months and now generates roughly 1 in 4 pull requests across the CrewAI codebase. Iris uses persistent memory from nightly dreaming cycles, proposes new skills after repeated approaches, and encodes deterministic Flows after five conversations following the same pattern. The agent has faced challenges including sandbox connection drops and temporary loss of team trust in its outputs, yet the share of AI-generated PRs continues to grow while humans focus on architecture and judgment.